David Manderscheid became Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 2007. Prior to his appointment as Dean he was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Iowa for twenty years, including the last six years as Chair of the Department. He received a B.S. from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. from Yale University. His research is in representation theory with applications to number theory. He has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and the University of Paris. Prior to becoming Chair in 2001, he served as the Director of the Graduate Program in Mathematics at Iowa for four years. He currently chairs the Mathematical Association of America Committee on Graduate Students.

Dean Manderscheid was awarded the Outstanding Mentor Award for the Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences from the University of Iowa Graduate College in 2002. In 2004 he received the Marion L. Huit Award from the University of Iowa for his teaching, research, and service to students. In a White House ceremony in 2005 he accepted, on behalf of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Iowa, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring for the success the Department has had in working with US minority graduate students from groups underrepresented in Mathematics. Dean Manderscheid has been the Principal Investigator on numerous grants from the United States Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, and the National Security Agency. Currently he is a co-PI on an ADVANCE Institutional Transformation award from NSF and on a grant from NSA. He publishes and lectures widely and has won a number of teaching awards.